Material deliveries that arrive when the crew is ready. Pours that run on schedule. Job costs you can see before the month ends. TMI builds the coordination and costing infrastructure concrete operations run on.
The work itself is well understood. What kills concrete contractor margins is the coordination gap between the plant, the crew, the inspector, and the billing cycle - all running on different schedules that nobody is actively managing.
Ready-mix has a clock on it the moment it leaves the plant. When the crew is fifteen minutes behind, or the preceding work ran long, or the inspector has not signed off, the truck sits. The mix degrades. The pour gets compromised or rejected. The cost lands on your job.
A concrete schedule is a dependency chain - cure time for the slab before the pour above it, inspection before the backfill, equipment availability before the pump setup. When one thing moves, everything downstream needs to move too. Most project managers manage this chain in their heads or on a whiteboard.
Material quantities versus delivery tickets. Labor hours against specific pours. Change orders that happened verbally on a Thursday. By the time these numbers get reconciled against the original bid, the job is done and the margin is whatever it is. There is no course correction available because there is no real-time signal.
Progress billing in concrete is a legitimate mechanism for capturing cash as work completes. But most concrete contractors bill when the PM finds time to assemble the documentation, not when the contract milestones are actually hit. The delay costs cash and creates disputes about what was completed when.
Delivery sequencing, pour scheduling, live job costing, and progress billing built around how concrete work actually flows - with the timing constraints and coordination requirements that make it different from other construction.
Sequences ready-mix trucks against pour schedule, crew readiness, and weather windows. Communicates directly with supplier dispatch to confirm delivery windows. Surfaces conflicts before the first truck rolls, not after it arrives.
Manages the dependency chain of pours, cures, inspections, and equipment availability. Surfaces downstream schedule impacts when any single item moves. Crew assignments consider certifications, load, and travel between sites.
Captures actual material quantities from delivery tickets, logs labor hours against specific pours, and compares running actuals to original bid estimates in real time. Cost overruns are visible in the first week, not the last.
Field crews document pour conditions, quantity placed, and mix information at the site. Inspection checklists route to the appropriate certifier. Documentation packages are assembled automatically for owner submittals and regulatory requirements.
Progress billing drafts generate based on pour completion, inspection sign-offs, and contract milestones. AIA applications, lump sum, or unit price billing formats. Change orders captured in the field flow to billing without PM assembly time.
Manages subcontractor scheduling for forming, rebar, and finish work in coordination with the pour sequence. Insurance and license verification tracked automatically. Subcontractor invoices matched against documented completion before approval.
Procore and Buildertrend require your PMs to use them consistently to get value. TMI captures data without requiring manual entry from the field.
| Capability | TMI | Procore | Buildertrend | Generic ERP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ready-mix delivery sequencing | Yes | No | No | No |
| Real-time job costing vs. bid | Yes | Manual entry | Manual entry | After close |
| Pour schedule dependency management | Yes | Gantt only | Gantt only | No |
| Automated progress billing triggers | Yes | Manual | Manual | Manual |
| Field documentation without data entry | Yes | Requires entry | Requires entry | Requires entry |
| Built for concrete, not all construction | Yes | Generic | Generic | Generic |
A working session with your ops team that maps your current delivery coordination process, scheduling approach, job costing gaps, and billing cycle. You get a full system blueprint with implementation pricing. $997, and the blueprint is yours either way.
TMI builds your delivery sequencing, scheduling, costing, and billing systems against your actual project data - your supplier relationships, your contract terms, your crew certifications. Integration with existing accounting or ERP happens in this phase. Most implementations go live in 8 to 12 weeks.
Deliveries coordinate themselves. Pour schedules update automatically when dependencies shift. Job costs are visible without PM assembly. Progress bills draft when milestones are hit. Your PMs run projects instead of chasing information to compile it into a report.
TMI builds a delivery coordination layer that sequences ready-mix trucks against your pour schedule, crew readiness, and weather windows. The system communicates directly with your supplier's dispatch system to confirm delivery windows, sends field confirmation to crew leads with the confirmed time, and surfaces conflicts before the first truck rolls. When the schedule shifts, delivery windows update automatically and supplier dispatch is notified without a phone call from your PM.
Pour scheduling in TMI accounts for weather forecasts, crew certifications, equipment availability, and the cure times of adjacent pours that affect when the next one can begin. The system holds a live view of all pours in the schedule and surfaces conflicts or downstream delays before they cascade. Inspections are scheduled automatically based on pour completion and required cure windows, with notification to the inspector and crew lead.
Job costing in concrete is hard because material costs fluctuate with mix design and quantity, pours run over estimated time, and change orders happen verbally in the field. TMI builds a job costing layer that captures actual material quantities from delivery tickets electronically, logs labor hours against specific pour activities, and compares running actuals to original bid line items in real time - visible on a dashboard, not assembled in a spreadsheet at month end.
Yes. TMI integrates with your primary ready-mix suppliers to pull plant availability, confirm delivery windows, and receive delivery ticket data electronically. This eliminates the manual phone cycle between your PM and the plant dispatcher and ensures that material delivery records are captured automatically into your job cost system without manual entry of ticket quantities and mix information.
TMI builds progress billing logic that matches your contract terms - AIA G702/G703 payment applications, lump sum with completion percentages, or unit price contracts. Billing drafts generate based on pour completion percentages, inspection sign-offs, and contract milestones as they are confirmed in the field. Change orders captured in the field flow through to the billing engine so nothing gets invoiced late or falls through the gap between the field and the office.
Procore is a project management platform that your PMs have to consistently use to get value out of - they need to enter data, update schedules, and process documents for Procore to have accurate information. TMI builds automations that capture data from the point it is created - delivery tickets, field documentation, inspection sign-offs - so the system has accurate information whether or not the PM remembered to log it.
Most concrete contractor implementations go live within 8 to 12 weeks. Delivery sequencing and project scheduling are typically the first systems live. Job costing integration and billing automation follow in the second phase once the project data structure and supplier integrations are established. The Audit session produces a specific timeline before any build commitment is required.
Every engagement starts with The Audit at $997. That session maps your current delivery coordination process, scheduling gaps, job costing methodology, and billing cycle - then produces a full system blueprint with implementation pricing. You own the blueprint whether you build with us or not. Concrete contractor build engagements typically range from $18,000 to $55,000 depending on the number of concurrent projects and supplier integrations in scope.
One session that maps your delivery coordination, scheduling, and costing gaps - and produces a blueprint for fixing them. $997.
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